Homeland Security report cites "right-wing" extremism

Let us call this what it is. It is fascism....nothing less.

I noted in several e-mails I got yesterday that this report from the Department of Homeland Security was being discussed. I have not, in full disclosure, read the whole thing, though I intend to soon, but I have seen enough bipartisan commentary on it by now that I am alarmed. The gist of the report is that the Feds should be on the lookout for increased activity by "right-wing extremists" due to current economic ills. A comparison is drawn to the resurgence of "right-wing extremism" in the mid-90's under an alleged similar climate of decreased economic activity and outsourcing of jobs.

Ed Morrissey's summary of all of this can be found here; it would behoove you to read it. As Morrissey capably points out, the DHS has no data to prove any of what they are saying. None. ZERO. Nonetheless, in a hamhanded way, but very clearly, DHS attempts to quash in its cradle any form of dissent to the unprecedented government expansion we are seeing today.

If President Obama does not denounce this, I don't know where conservatives can be expected to go from here in terms of giving this President the benefit of the doubt. We are repeating the steps that so many nations have trod before us; in popular jargon, "we've seen this movie before" and the ending isn't pretty.

Joe Scarborough was outraged about this as he discussed it on his show this morning, and Mike Barnicle (no conservative) was right with him. As Scarborough asked, "What if the tables were flipped and in the previous administration, Tom Ridge (the first DHS Secretary) were warning Dick Cheney to be on the lookout for the rise of liberal groups? You would have no end of apocalyptic warnings from this network and others!" (not his exact words, but close)